GOD IS LOVE
Today I want to discuss with my readers a subject that I have not heard preachers or pastors talk much about, in church or anywhere else. Most of the conversation that I heard in church was about love, Jesus is love, God is love, and so on. But what I have frequently seen in real life is not evidence of love. What I have read is not evidence of love. What I have seen and read is the opposite of love. For example, God said, "You shall have no other gods before Me. "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness [of anything] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” Genesis 20:3-6. Many years ago I used to work at an institution in the State of California taking care mostly of young patients with various physical and mental disabilities. These kids were born that way with physical and mental disabilities. What sins have they committed? None. Why were these kids punished?
I found the answer in Genesis 20:3-6. The Bible calls it the Generational Curse. I call it living in sin under the “grace” curse. And others call it the “God is love” curse. We Christians do all kinds of things that God forbid us from doing. But we do it anyway, because God did not strike us death immediately, like in the Ananias and Sapphira case. God is love, so we say. That may be true. But have we thought of the cumulative effect of the generational curse that will occur on our kids, their kids, and the next two or three generations? We don’t care because we enjoy doing what we are doing now. We are having fun doing what God forbids us from doing. Finally, let us pray to the Lord that none of the bad things that we did while we were young is passed on or inherited by our children, their children, and their children's children in the form of generational curse. Why? Because these kids do not deserve them! I have seen them happening among my friends and families.
I found the answer in Genesis 20:3-6. The Bible calls it the Generational Curse. I call it living in sin under the “grace” curse. And others call it the “God is love” curse. We Christians do all kinds of things that God forbid us from doing. But we do it anyway, because God did not strike us death immediately, like in the Ananias and Sapphira case. God is love, so we say. That may be true. But have we thought of the cumulative effect of the generational curse that will occur on our kids, their kids, and the next two or three generations? We don’t care because we enjoy doing what we are doing now. We are having fun doing what God forbids us from doing. Finally, let us pray to the Lord that none of the bad things that we did while we were young is passed on or inherited by our children, their children, and their children's children in the form of generational curse. Why? Because these kids do not deserve them! I have seen them happening among my friends and families.
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